Friday, September 28, 2018

Long Weekend and Beyond In SYDNEY





Tuesday 2 October 2018
AIIA NSW | High Stakes: Will the Congressional Midterm Elections Be the End for Trump?
Speaker: John Barron

Wednesday 3 October 2018
Sydeny Democracy Network | Four Words, Four Faces of Democracy
Speakers: Adele Webb, Robert van Krieken, Rick Benitez, John Keane and Benedetta Brevini

Thursday 4 October 2018
Department of Government & International Relations | Anatomies of Revolution
Speaker: George Lawson

Department of Political Economy | Sports and the Global South: Work, Play and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Speaker: Janaka Biyanwila

Politics in the Pub | BDS of Israel: Successes to Date and the Campaign to Boycott Eurovision 2019
Speakers: Mona Abu Zalaf and Hilmi Dabbagh

Sydney Policy Lab | How Australia Can Save Democracy for the World
Speakers: Marc Stears and Annamarie Jagose

Billion Dollar Whale: the Inside Story of the Scandal That Brought Down the Malaysian Government
Speakers: Tom Wright and Aaron Connelly

Sydney Ideas | Planet Versus Profit: Striking a Balance
Speakers: Christopher Wright, Catherine Dorey, Pichamon Yeophantong and Bill Pritchard (Chair)


Friday 5 October 2018
China Studies Centre | Sydney Chinese Studies Postgraduate Seminar
Speakers: Jon von Kowallis, Bonnie S. McDougall, Ying Qian, Wanning Sun, Luigi Tomba

Sydney Southeast Asia Centre | ASEAN Forum 2018
Speaker: Lorraine Elliott

LCT Centre | Professor Karl Maton and Associate Professor Sarah K Howard
Speakers: Karl Maton and Sarah K Howard

Sydney Law School | Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and Organisations: 'One Belt, One Road' Initiative
Speaker: Jiaxiang Hu

Media@Sydney | Digital Housekeeping: Living with Data 
Speakers: Heather Horst and Jolynna Sinanan

Media@Sydney | Oversharing, Normative Intimacy, and Gender in ‘Digital Intimate Publics 
Speaker: Amy Dobson


Monday 8 October 2018
The US Studies Centre | The United States and Asia's Four Flashpoints
Speakers: Brendan Taylor, Madelyn Creedon and Ashley Townshend

Tuesday 9 October 2018
China Studies Centre | Views From the Grassroots: Independent Documentary Cinema in Contemporary China
Speaker: Ying Qian

AIIA NSW | Annual General Meeting
The Glover Cottages


Wednesday 10 October 2018
China Studies Centre | How to Do Fieldwork in China?
Speakers: Shuxia Chen, Peter Jia and Olivier Krischer

UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT | AI Supremacy: Will Australia Lead or Lose?
Speaker: Mary-Anne Williams

Sydney Democracy Network | Life after Dictatorship Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
Speakers: James Loxton and George Lawson

The US Studies Centre | Fear of Automation and the Rise of Populism and Protectionism
Speakers: Peter Loewen, Simon Jackman and Claire McFarland

Sydney Ideas | Fighting Truth Decay: How to Navigate Health in a Post-truth World
Speakers: Lisa Bero, Catriona Bonfiglioli and Stephen Simpson


Thursday 11 October 2018
Lowy Institute | The Republic and Australia’s Place in the World
Speakers: Julian Leeser, Alex Oliver and Michael Cooney

School of Social and Political Sciences | Citizenship as Gesture
Speaker: Lana Tatour

Outside the Square | Hackers, Breaches, Bots: How Well Do You Understand the Internet?
Speakers: Frank Smith III, Benedetta Brevini and Alex Hogue

Politics in the Pub | Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights
Speaker: David Kinley

Sydney Business School | 26th Annual Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Tanya Plibersek

Sydney Law School | Law and the Girl: Genre, Gender and Violence in the Interpretation of Law
Speaker: Honni van Rijswijk


Friday 12 October 2018
Media@Sydney | Political Participation on Social, Civic and Computer Networks
Speaker: Francesco Bailo

China Studies Centre | India and China in the Regional Economic Order
Speaker: Amita Batra

Sydney Environment Institute | Sydney Environmental Humanities Seminar Group
A Sydney Environment Institute Initiative


Monday 15 October 2018
Sydney Ideas | Reading and Writing Slowly in a Digital Age
Speakers: Mark Tredinnick, Frances di Lauro, Megan Le Masurier, Beth Yahp and Annamarie Jagose


Tuesday 16 October 2018
Sydney Ideas | Is Art More Truthful Than Science?
Speakers: Alana Valentine, Zdenka Kuncic, Geraint Lewis, Tara Murphy and Tricia Dearborn


Wednesday 17 October 2018
Lowy Institute | The Economics of Data: in conversation with Google’s Chief Economist
Speaker: Hal R Varian

Sydney Ideas | Building Food Utopias: Voice, Power and Agency
Speakers: Eric Holt-Giménez, Eva Perroni and Michael Croft


Thursday 18 October 2018
Politics in the Pub | How Should Australia Position Itself Given Donald Trump's Foreign Policy and Us Global Interests?
Speakers to be advised

Sydney Ideas | Humannature Series: ‘Dark Emu’
Speaker: Bruce Pascoe


Monday 22 October 2018
China Studies Centre | 2018 Sydney China Business Forum
Four Seasons Hotel


Tuesday 23 October 2018
Sydney Ideas | Hope on the Horizon for Indigenous Youth Mental Health
Speakers: Joel Thompson, Ian Hickie, Mark Spinks and Brooke Boney

The Ethics Centre | IQ2 Debate: Capitalism Is Destroying Us
IQ2 Australia Tenth Anniversary


Wednesday 24 October 2018
Institute of Criminology | 2018 Paul Byrne SC Memorial Lecture: Our First Nations People in Custody: a National Disgrace
Speaker: Phillip Boulten

Sydney Ideas | Visionary Realities
Speaker: Ying Qian

Sydney Ideas | Why Island Nations’ Isolation on the Climate Change Threat Must End
Speakers: Anote Tong, Rosemary Lyster, Jennifer Newell and David Schlosberg


Thursday 25 October 2018
Department of Government & International Relations | Citizens and the Crash: Political Protest and the Global Financial Crisis in Cross-national Comparison
Speaker: Sarah Cameron

Politics in the Pub | The Decline of the Us - How Real Is It?
Speaker to be advised


Monday 29 October 2018
Metropolis Conference | New Thinking on Migration Starts Here
Global Migration in Turbulent Times

School of Social and Political Sciences | Archive That Comrade!
Speaker: Phil Cohen


Tuesday 30 October 2018
Sydney Ideas | Why Climate Change Law Is a Hot Debate
Speakers: Liz Fisher and Rosemary Lyster


Wednesday 31 October 2018
Lowy Institute | The Future of Journalism
Speaker: John Micklethwait

Sydney Ideas | Meet a Living Legend: Bruce Beresford
Speakers: Bruce Beresford and Bruce Isaacs